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SIX MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM is the text to a series of lectures which became an obsession for Italo Calvino in the last year of his life. Drawing on the works of Lucretius, Ovid, Boccaccio, Falubert, Kundera, Perec and many more, he pinpoints the universal laws and indispensable literary values future generations might cherish -lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility and multiplicity. It is an eloquent and lively 'defence' of literature - a fitting gift for the next millennium.

"Querido Francesco: Kann man einen Brief in Form eines Buches schreiben, um ein Vergnügen zu erklären, das der Literatur gilt? Die Antwort liegt in der Existenz dieses Buches." So lassen Vater und Sohn die Bücher miteinander sprechen und zeichnen ein literarisches Universum, in dem Holden Caulfield, John Silver, Peter Pan oder Captain Hook sich verfolgen, bis sie sich in einem Schloss mit Jorge Luis Borges versammeln, der ihnen das Geheimnis der Literatur enthüllt. Dieses Buch besteht aus Büchern: Bücher, die unsere Kindheit geprägt haben. "Wenn ein Kind an einem Sommermorgen" ist die Erzählung eines Vaters an seinen Sohn über die Leidenschaft für die Literatur.

Novel by Umberto Eco, published in Italian as Il nome della rosa in 1980. Although the work stands on its own as a murder mystery, it is more accurately seen as a questioning of "truth" from theological, philosophical, scholarly, and historical perspectives. The story centers on William of Baskerville, a 50-year-old monk who is sent to investigate a death at a Benedictine monastery. During his search, several other monks are killed in a bizarre pattern that reflects the Book of Revelation. —From The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

Der Held Qfwfq erzählt fesselnde Liebesgeschichten aus dem All und raffinierte Anekdoten über die Liebe zu bezaubernden Mädchen im Universum.

Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.

Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some fun. They start feeding random bits of information into a powerful computer capable of inventing connections between the entries, thinking they are creating nothing more than an amusing game, but then their game starts to take over, the deaths start mounting, and they are forced into a frantic search for the truth

Der Eco-Übersetzer Burkhart Kroeber hat hier 33 der interessantesten Aufsätze zu dem erfolgreichen Roman versammelt.

L'infanzia, la guerra partigiana, i rapporti con il padre... Cinque scritti postumi sul tema della memoria.

Una sottile strategia di paura e mistero avvolge i preparativi del Palio. Ma quale Palio? Quello delle 17 contrade vive presenti nella piazza tra squilli di trombe e volteggiar di bandiere... o quello delle 6 contrade morte che oscuramente, beffardamente continuano a correre e vincere?

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